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. >> steve hankin. i was a, i used to be an attorney with the irs. i'm retired now. um, i want to go back to the statement made about fairness and how, you know, that's the major concern. you seem to have accepted the notion that everybody agrees that this income tax system and particularly with the progressive rates is fair. i would like to submit to you that taxing the rich is essentially taxing a person based on his status. it would be, to me, it's not much different than taxing a person based on his religion or his ethnic group. a big difference, of course, is that the it gets the amount of revenue in that if you tax people who are wealthy, that's a big source of income. but the fact remains that it is, essentially, you're taxing somebody based on their status, their wealthy status. and our country never wanted to have these distinctions based on status. so what i submit to you is to say ha -- to say that that's fair, to tax somebody on the basis of their status, i don't think that's fair at all. i don't think that -- you're just assuming that that's fair. you're
. >> steve hankin. i was a, i used to be an attorney with the irs. i'm retired now. um, i want to go back to the statement made about fairness and how, you know, that's the major concern. you seem to have accepted the notion that everybody agrees that this income tax system and particularly with the progressive rates is fair. i would like to submit to you that taxing the rich is essentially taxing a person based on his status. it would be, to me, it's not much different than taxing a...
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>> steve, very simply, the u.s. situation with respect to our deficit and debt is a national security liability. we need our senior leadership. we need a senior leadership to take it on. we have an opportunity to do so. we have a requirement to do so. at the foundation of national power is ultimately economic comment and in terms of global influence, in terms of the ability to support a military, the economic is foundation. and we have i think the united states, both an opportunity to require it to get our house in order, and i believe that our 100 senators and members of the house will step up on this and sufficient majority in the coming months. >> how do you look at your surplus of the u.s.? does that say we have america under our control? >> we are one of the closest allies of the united states. so of course our position today to united states is very, very decisive, strengthen our relationship. so these are not, there is no intention for us to try to use this kind of economic relationship in different context.
>> steve, very simply, the u.s. situation with respect to our deficit and debt is a national security liability. we need our senior leadership. we need a senior leadership to take it on. we have an opportunity to do so. we have a requirement to do so. at the foundation of national power is ultimately economic comment and in terms of global influence, in terms of the ability to support a military, the economic is foundation. and we have i think the united states, both an opportunity to...
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so steve will be with us at this project. staff director some budget commissions and the plague. also come house in grant with the bipartisan policy center. i want to recognize and thank them. we call this session, listened for the next, which is presumptuous on our very part, but we note each generation seems to be in crisis. there's a tiny moment to overcome the centrifugal forces to is harder, budget. our moment arrives with the fiscal cliff. we unlike greece and other countries don't have market to remind us we have to do heavy lifting. we have her own self-imposed handcuffs, which we can always pray, by the way, and we have. we know in 1990 we had a sequestered as bill hoagland said, but nonetheless substantial. $65 billion starting in january 13. with a range of tax cuts due to expire in a total purse of $560 billion swing in the deficit if we simply let the automatic sequesters go into effect and tax cuts turnoff and other spending go into effect or 3.7 percentage points of gdp. that is of course good news for a budget deficit upwards of a percent of gdp. it's bad news for
so steve will be with us at this project. staff director some budget commissions and the plague. also come house in grant with the bipartisan policy center. i want to recognize and thank them. we call this session, listened for the next, which is presumptuous on our very part, but we note each generation seems to be in crisis. there's a tiny moment to overcome the centrifugal forces to is harder, budget. our moment arrives with the fiscal cliff. we unlike greece and other countries don't have...
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[laughter] >> steve rogers, bobby -- [laughter] [applause] ronnie clark and b.j.. i'm going to be held it politics and not name any names. i could say that everybody thinks the best baseball players are those playing the game when they were seven, eight or 9-years-old. but i think i can say with confidence the best baseball players of all time are those playing the game right now. the quality of the training, of their fitness, of the skill of the competition has gotten to the point where the players and the fact that we are more inclusive than we've ever been a few back to the history of the game before african-americans could play before we had the best international players, i'm not going to name any names. depravity has their own opinions but i can say with confidence the quality of the game today is as high as it has ever been. >> if you're trapped on a desert island, which mlb owners would you prefer to be with? [laughter] >> so, the challenge here is does the owner wants to be on that list is what i have to figure out. well, maybe tom warner would be responsi
[laughter] >> steve rogers, bobby -- [laughter] [applause] ronnie clark and b.j.. i'm going to be held it politics and not name any names. i could say that everybody thinks the best baseball players are those playing the game when they were seven, eight or 9-years-old. but i think i can say with confidence the best baseball players of all time are those playing the game right now. the quality of the training, of their fitness, of the skill of the competition has gotten to the point where...
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tom hendricks who since moved on and steve brown for tremendous work. literally, hundreds of volunteers working in work groups and task groups led by rtca with margaret jenni, and i want to thank everybody for the help over the years. just as the members are engaged in our work, we've been very pleased with the knowledge and level of engagement by acting administrator, first serving as the faa deputy administrator, mike call's become more, not less active in the work since being elevated to the role of acting administrator. with michael at the helm, his interests, and working closely with the community, i'm confident in the ability to overcome barriers to implementing next generation. you commented about succession planning, and i'm pleased with my chairmanmanship sunsetting, and i'll remain on the committee, bill ayer, chairman of the alaska air group, and bill's been formally leading the alaska air group as chairman and ceo, an experienced aveuater, is taking over the chairmanmanship on a go-forward basis passing the baton at wright patterson air forc
tom hendricks who since moved on and steve brown for tremendous work. literally, hundreds of volunteers working in work groups and task groups led by rtca with margaret jenni, and i want to thank everybody for the help over the years. just as the members are engaged in our work, we've been very pleased with the knowledge and level of engagement by acting administrator, first serving as the faa deputy administrator, mike call's become more, not less active in the work since being elevated to the...
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gates in steve jobs, they dropped out of college, went to the basement, put her god-given house to work and created an incredible products that have blessed the world and of great hundreds of thousands of jobs and a lot of wealth and opportunity for people. we are to celebrate that. what we have in washington is people attacking it and say we need to tax and regular that were. that is exactly the opposite of what america's stood for for 235 years. those policies divide the country. yes, i'm more worried about the people that don't take full advantage of the opportunities. we need to get everyone that opportunity for the american dream. this is a nation of opportunity but not guarantees. >> the strength, the economic strength, the wages of america's middle class declined for the first time since the second world war due to the disastrous policies of the presidency of george w. bush. the results of those choices have had three primary effects that we're all digging out from still. one of those effects has been the largest debt ever racked up by an american president. it was racked up by p
gates in steve jobs, they dropped out of college, went to the basement, put her god-given house to work and created an incredible products that have blessed the world and of great hundreds of thousands of jobs and a lot of wealth and opportunity for people. we are to celebrate that. what we have in washington is people attacking it and say we need to tax and regular that were. that is exactly the opposite of what america's stood for for 235 years. those policies divide the country. yes, i'm...
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steve bartlett, who was a congressman from dallas and who later left the house, became mayor of dallas and now i think he's the executive director of the business council here, was there to testify. he had been very instrumental in not only helping us pass the a.d.a. but helping us pass the a.d.a. act amendments of 2008 which the second president bush signed into law. well, i say this to my friend from utah, this is not something that popped up overnight. this has been a long time coming, a lot of effort has been put into it and as i said, all the departments have said there is no conflict with our laws, we don't have to change anything. i also say to my friend that -- that, you know, we do want to be that city on the hill, that shining city on the hill and this is one area in which the united states has no equal. we have taken the lead in the world on this issue. countries come to us to see how they can do something, what they can do for people with disabilities. 116 nations have already signed it and the european union. if we don't sign it, then when other countries then they have to
steve bartlett, who was a congressman from dallas and who later left the house, became mayor of dallas and now i think he's the executive director of the business council here, was there to testify. he had been very instrumental in not only helping us pass the a.d.a. but helping us pass the a.d.a. act amendments of 2008 which the second president bush signed into law. well, i say this to my friend from utah, this is not something that popped up overnight. this has been a long time coming, a lot...
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steve mccarthy to his regret probably. politicians try to avoid being urbane. to beat urbane is to be elitist but the background with his wit didn't seem to be too urbane but it was fine. it wasn't clunky. those press conferences were a tree and they went on in prime time because even in those days with paul kennedy's of confidence going on at 9:00 at night with everybody watching, everyone watched more television in those days than they do now because there were only three channels but everyone watch those press conferences when they were on. it is one thing, one reason i wanted to write this book. i can across someone named dick kurtz, probably a republican. most of those guys were. and won't talk about that. the pd boat strategy -- great strategy. we were stuck over there with no showers, the movies at the front and you talk to other guys and the other guys were willing to listen and laugh at your jokes, tell good stories. ahead to be good guys and they said kennedy was great company. that stirred me. here's a guy i want to write about. someone like winston
steve mccarthy to his regret probably. politicians try to avoid being urbane. to beat urbane is to be elitist but the background with his wit didn't seem to be too urbane but it was fine. it wasn't clunky. those press conferences were a tree and they went on in prime time because even in those days with paul kennedy's of confidence going on at 9:00 at night with everybody watching, everyone watched more television in those days than they do now because there were only three channels but...
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and in ways that those disciplines -- you know, one of steve jobs last speeches was actually just about that point. but that is less attention than the focus of the foundation, which is heard much on training people for jobs. there is a strong cool and political society again, the idea is being talked about. >> let me comment on that for a moment. because i think that to get traction, you have to be sensitive to the realities. for example, when we put the title on the national academy study of the future of the research university, while we follow along with the idea that prosperity is important, i insisted on adding the words prosperity and security. the reason for that is that we have congress right now that certainly gives lip service to jobs, but they give money to security. okay? if you look at states right now, simplistic approach is to say that we are going to. if you get sick, the only place you're really going to get care that is our hospitals. we don't only access international markets for wealth, but we access international markets for human talent. we are one of the few inst
and in ways that those disciplines -- you know, one of steve jobs last speeches was actually just about that point. but that is less attention than the focus of the foundation, which is heard much on training people for jobs. there is a strong cool and political society again, the idea is being talked about. >> let me comment on that for a moment. because i think that to get traction, you have to be sensitive to the realities. for example, when we put the title on the national academy...
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thank you, steve. bob beings by. >> thank you, senator. and thank you, steve. and steve has talked about the growth of the major entitlement program, social security, medicare, and medicaid and identified that as a big problem cost driver. i want to look at some of the factors why because they have to do with the solutions that would be adopted and the timing and the magnitude. if we can see the first -- the next slide, please. one of the factors driving the cost of those programs is simple demographics. that is to say we're going to have many more beneficiaries because of the population is aging. i feel that every day when i get out of bed. there are a lot of us baby boomers who know what that is like. part of that is -- obviously this is a good thing that people are living longer. and of course, the baby boom generation is a fact that we need to deal with this not anything we can do about that factor. so demographics alone are going to add substantially to the cost of these programs, of course, it has also has economic effects. if means there are going to be
thank you, steve. bob beings by. >> thank you, senator. and thank you, steve. and steve has talked about the growth of the major entitlement program, social security, medicare, and medicaid and identified that as a big problem cost driver. i want to look at some of the factors why because they have to do with the solutions that would be adopted and the timing and the magnitude. if we can see the first -- the next slide, please. one of the factors driving the cost of those programs is...
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crowley, steve hadley. brian jenkins, all the way from california. michael leiter, who was a marvelous head of the national counterterrorism center, and poppe to be. stuart levy, is to hear? no. jim loy. paul mchale, former colleague in the states congress. phil mudd. eric olson. dan, is he hear? no. maren? guy swan, yes. evan wolf. gary hart, former senator gary hart, very good friend and another of the group here from colorado. and the indefatigable director, former homeland security inspector general clark ervin. the wilson center is pleased to partner with the aspen institute to host this event. the second public discussion we have filled with secretary, open secretary janet napolitano. today, we are examining the international dimension of homeland security. most people don't recognize what an important role the department of homeland security action place internationally. as a recovering politician, as i mentioned who sat on the house homeland security committee and shared it subcommittee on intelligence for many years, i do know about this. re
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>> thank you, steve. i will talk about the challenge of the securities sector reform focusing particularly on the police and the military for the simple reason that the military are not the biggest challenge in tunisia. thank you for that remark. i will try to take the case to tunisia and the broad plains that you've made. on the attack of the u.s. embassy in tunis in september. if there was one place in the arab spring that everyone thought would be the place to succeed, it was tunisia. tunisia was largely believed to be the place that was largely transition with authoritarian to space rule. and there is great cause. the military and its heroes for their refusal for the demonstrator and joined the demonstrations brought down to the ben ali government. the ministry of defense and armed forces increase the control of the military and the tunisia forces do not have a stake in tunisia's counterpart like they do. even in the internal security services, there was cause for hope. the early transition government
>> thank you, steve. i will talk about the challenge of the securities sector reform focusing particularly on the police and the military for the simple reason that the military are not the biggest challenge in tunisia. thank you for that remark. i will try to take the case to tunisia and the broad plains that you've made. on the attack of the u.s. embassy in tunis in september. if there was one place in the arab spring that everyone thought would be the place to succeed, it was tunisia....
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. >> steve austin watches c-span on verizon. created by america's cable companies in 1979 brought to you as a public service by your television provider. >>> a former chief cia analyst joined a group of foreign policy experts to look at the challenges facing the next white house including how to deal with iran's nuclear program, prospects for an israeli-palestinian agreement, and clashes in syria. the middle east policy council is the host. it's about two and a half hours. >> before we go to the distinguished panel, i want to make introduction remarks just to set the stage, and then the panel will speak, and then we will have questions. this is about policy choices facing the next administration, whoever's going to be leading it. he is going to have some decisions to make. on israeli palestinian questions, will the next administration resume the peace process in order to seek resolution of this conflict through establishment of the two-state solution. will he be willing to extend political capital on this? is it in the national
. >> steve austin watches c-span on verizon. created by america's cable companies in 1979 brought to you as a public service by your television provider. >>> a former chief cia analyst joined a group of foreign policy experts to look at the challenges facing the next white house including how to deal with iran's nuclear program, prospects for an israeli-palestinian agreement, and clashes in syria. the middle east policy council is the host. it's about two and a half hours....
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several, such as steve angle, charles duggan, and ted uliotte, also served in the bush administration, including in the white house counsel's office and the leadership of the justice department. watford also has strong support in the business community. the general counsels of leading american corporations, including google, mattel, verizon, sear corps have also written in support of mr. watford. they say watford is -- and i quote -- "exactly the kind of individual that any plaintiff or defendant, person, business or government would welcome deciding their case." in short, paul watford is truly both an excellent and distinguished choice for the ninth circuit. he is extremely bright, he is experienced at the trial and appellate level, and in both civil and criminal cases. he is uniquely respected for his intellect and judgment, and he has broad support across the political spectrum and in the business community. maybe this is the reason why cloture was vitiated. he is not filibusterrable. and i really hope that people see the fine and keen intellect that this man is and he should have
several, such as steve angle, charles duggan, and ted uliotte, also served in the bush administration, including in the white house counsel's office and the leadership of the justice department. watford also has strong support in the business community. the general counsels of leading american corporations, including google, mattel, verizon, sear corps have also written in support of mr. watford. they say watford is -- and i quote -- "exactly the kind of individual that any plaintiff or...
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just in terms of steve's question of voting on that, it strikes me that it doesn't mr. need to be a federal role in promulgating standards, these can be voluntary standards of the sector comes up with. public education network develop standards like this for local education funds which members, voluntary adoption process based on the independent sectors, standards for nonprofits and good governance and how they are managed. that does -- is a critique i hear in the for-profit world historically that i wonder if stand for another mechanism, and that is certainly in the charter world where you have an independent charter authority for example, that grants a charter school, for-profit schools, and it takes out from under -- in other words, the school board, the elected officials have the responsibility for governing the school district, doesn't have authority to pull a charter, perhaps. and as we go into some of these burgeoning field of online and others, perhaps there will be an analogous critique. i wonder if sanders or another mechanism could address that critique. talk
just in terms of steve's question of voting on that, it strikes me that it doesn't mr. need to be a federal role in promulgating standards, these can be voluntary standards of the sector comes up with. public education network develop standards like this for local education funds which members, voluntary adoption process based on the independent sectors, standards for nonprofits and good governance and how they are managed. that does -- is a critique i hear in the for-profit world historically...
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. >> let me go to steve, alan or erskine, and then we'll come back to pete and alice. >> erskine is the numbers guy. i do the color. [laughter] but i can tell you what i tell people. i just ask poll of which are. we don't do bs or much. let's just tell you where country is, and tell them what a trillion is. if you spend a buck a second from right now you would hit a trillion for 32500 years. we spent a billion a day, the big bang theory of the universe happened to 13,600,000,000 years ago, and that isn't even close to a trillion and we owe 16th of those babies. and for every buck we spend, we've are 41 cents of it. and today your country borrows 3,600,000,000 bucks, and they were borrowed -- join in the massive stupidity and see how far we get with this. >> erskine, sounds like alan is the numbers man to me. >> the cyclical versus the cyclical versus the structure. that's a erskine's baby. he's good at it. >> the real problem is that we can't simply go our way out of this problem we're in today. you can literally have double-digit growth for a decade and not solve the problem. and you c
. >> let me go to steve, alan or erskine, and then we'll come back to pete and alice. >> erskine is the numbers guy. i do the color. [laughter] but i can tell you what i tell people. i just ask poll of which are. we don't do bs or much. let's just tell you where country is, and tell them what a trillion is. if you spend a buck a second from right now you would hit a trillion for 32500 years. we spent a billion a day, the big bang theory of the universe happened to 13,600,000,000...
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walter isaacson's book on steve jobs is a perfect example of that. it was an international best selling phenomena, and with good reason, because of all the things we can learn from in. >> host: what are you currently reading? >> guest: i read a click particularly actually. i read a wonderful book written by a british fly fisherman about his fought in world war ii. i love that i read about the 48 campaign, which if you think this is wild, that was really well. harry truman and henry wallace and strom thurmond and tom dewey, the first election after the war. so i'm reading, i said about terry anderson and george bush and how he decided to go to war. my wife just finished catherine the great which was given to me and she picked it off, so i've got to go back and get involved in that. i've read a lot of magazine stuff, a lot of essays. i actually opened up a little correspondence with a poet by the name of donald paul by the something he wrote in "the new yorker" about growing old, and we spoke to me anyway, so we had a little exchange and that was quite
walter isaacson's book on steve jobs is a perfect example of that. it was an international best selling phenomena, and with good reason, because of all the things we can learn from in. >> host: what are you currently reading? >> guest: i read a click particularly actually. i read a wonderful book written by a british fly fisherman about his fought in world war ii. i love that i read about the 48 campaign, which if you think this is wild, that was really well. harry truman and henry...
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[laughter] >> steve rogers, bobby veneer,. [laughter] >> tony clark, and d.j. century surhoff. i'm going to be a little politic here and not name any names. i could say that everybody thinks the best baseball players are those that were playing the game when they were seven or eight or nine years old but i think i can say with confidence the best baseball players of all-time are those playing the game right now. the quality of their training, of their fitness, the skill, the competition, has gotton to the point where the players and the fact we're more inclusive than we have ever been if you go back to the history of the game, before the african-americans could play and the best international players were playing. everybody has their own opinions, but i can say with confidence that the quality of the play of the game today is as high as it's ever been. >> if you were trapped on a desert island, with two mlb owners would you most prefer to be with. [laughter] >> let me think. so, the challenge here is, do -- does an owner want to be on the list or not on the list? that's what i
[laughter] >> steve rogers, bobby veneer,. [laughter] >> tony clark, and d.j. century surhoff. i'm going to be a little politic here and not name any names. i could say that everybody thinks the best baseball players are those that were playing the game when they were seven or eight or nine years old but i think i can say with confidence the best baseball players of all-time are those playing the game right now. the quality of their training, of their fitness, the skill, the...
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house debate with iowa gow congressman steve king and democrat christy vilsack. then two rivals in the pharmaceutical industry come together for a call in more cooperation in combating counterfeit prescription drugs. and live at 2 p.m. eastern, policy analysts on how congress has fared in making its proceedings more transparent to the public. later today the carnegie endowment hosts a discussion on how the next u.s. president should engage the world. panelists will discuss topics including the international order and the rise of major world players such as china. the event begins at 6:30 p.m. eastern, and you can see it live on c-span3. >>> now, a nevada senate debate between dean heller and shelley berkeley. they recently met for their first debate in what's being called one of the closest senate races in the country. the cook political report rates the contest a toss-up. this event comes courtesy of knpb-tv in nevada. >> good evening. republican u.s. senator dean heller and democratic congresswoman shelley berkeley will face off in an hourlong debate sponsored
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nguyen and catherine. >> thanks, paul, catherine and steve. we are now going to close with our keynote speaker, andy greenburg, writer and focuses on technology information security and digital, civil liberties. he currently writes for forbes magazine and is the author of the book tim mentioned earlier called this machine kills, how the wikileakers activists and to free the world's information. please welcome andy. [applause] >> i'm sorry to inflect powerpoint on everybody. what i learned today is people have a security don't use powerpoint anymore and people that are really good at security don't use e-mail anymore. if you want to contact me have your people call my people. i'm technology reporter with for this and i've written a book that tells secrets, that sounds much more dangerous, but the future has come up because run the the part where they say to mardy no more secrets. that is what my book is about. there's a shift that has come up a couple of times today, and i see it as a security reporter covering this industry the last two years
nguyen and catherine. >> thanks, paul, catherine and steve. we are now going to close with our keynote speaker, andy greenburg, writer and focuses on technology information security and digital, civil liberties. he currently writes for forbes magazine and is the author of the book tim mentioned earlier called this machine kills, how the wikileakers activists and to free the world's information. please welcome andy. [applause] >> i'm sorry to inflect powerpoint on everybody. what i...
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under the lead of steve black and the director of the blm and so many of the people who held this we have made that a huge priority for the united states of america. we have permitted 29 projects up to this point in time. large-scale solar, wind, and geothermal projects on the public lands of the estate's. some of those projects are not only constructed, but contributing energy to the great right now. and we have -- we have a lot more on the ways will. our hope is that by -- our hope is that by that time that we get to the end of 2012 that we will have permitted over 10,000 megawatts of power on the public lands of the united states of america. and we have not stopped there just on on short, we have led an effort that has included the governors all along the atlantic , where we are working with them to map out and have mapped out significant potential for offshore wind development along the atlantic and during the same thing in other places, including the state of oregon where we believe there is huge energy potential for offshore wind. just a few days ago as part of what we did in t
under the lead of steve black and the director of the blm and so many of the people who held this we have made that a huge priority for the united states of america. we have permitted 29 projects up to this point in time. large-scale solar, wind, and geothermal projects on the public lands of the estate's. some of those projects are not only constructed, but contributing energy to the great right now. and we have -- we have a lot more on the ways will. our hope is that by -- our hope is that by...
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jobs to bob iger, and then bob calling me and saying steve wants to talk to you about something. and that was, actually, the video ipod which when you think back, i remember the video ipod, but i'm so addicted to my iphone, and i've got everything there now that it just seems a very natural progression. so -- >> is that a good business for you? >> yes, it is a good business for us. because it connects us to our viewers in a way we never dreamed possible. >> you don't make the kind of profits there with your contents that you would make on a cable channel. >> no. they're very different business models. one is 30 be years old, and the other one is a few years old. so i think they're apples and oranges. >> but one thing that happens, once you, once people start consuming video that they're pulling down over the internet, then you go from a limited group of competitors to an unlimited group of competitors. you've got the jay-z channel, the deepak chopra channel, "the wall street journal" channel. there's infinite competition out there. is that, doesn't that effect the value of what y
jobs to bob iger, and then bob calling me and saying steve wants to talk to you about something. and that was, actually, the video ipod which when you think back, i remember the video ipod, but i'm so addicted to my iphone, and i've got everything there now that it just seems a very natural progression. so -- >> is that a good business for you? >> yes, it is a good business for us. because it connects us to our viewers in a way we never dreamed possible. >> you don't make the...
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but to say at this point that we need to continue to double down on our efforts, steve, i think were to point a point in the united states now in our own economic problems. some in that struck me coming home from so much time overseas is our economic problems. we've got infrastructure problems, education problems. i don't think the united states can afford to continue to invest in campaigns like iraq and afghanistan as we have over this past decade. the transition has a reasonable possibility of success, but we use reached a point now in terms of her is available and frankly in terms of the transition to take place, ron turnouts washington life. i came across as he's talking about now dealing with the french, the american revolutionary, sandefur going to win liberty, we the american revolutionaries, we have to be the one to win the battles. we need the french, but it's ours to win. so yeah, i think we've reached the point where we've done a lot. there's a good foundation. we're going to continue to do more, but it's over to the afghans at this point. >> and you can see all of that ev
but to say at this point that we need to continue to double down on our efforts, steve, i think were to point a point in the united states now in our own economic problems. some in that struck me coming home from so much time overseas is our economic problems. we've got infrastructure problems, education problems. i don't think the united states can afford to continue to invest in campaigns like iraq and afghanistan as we have over this past decade. the transition has a reasonable possibility...
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. >> steve reed. >> chancellor aware because of his continuing inadequate level of funding to school building which today's statement is not correct, london councils across party body is estimating that by 2016, one in every 10 primary age children and son will not have a permanent school place? >> first of all, can i take this opportunity to welcome him to the house of commons. congratulate him on his victory. he rightly wants to speak on behalf of his constituents. what i would say is the pressure on london's schoolhouschoolhou ses, for some years is a huge issue when we came into office. we have provided additional capital spending for new school places. the money we announced over a billion pounds we announced today is also to deal with areas where there's high pressure. i will make sure that my runoff on education secretary -- [inaudible] >> julian smith. >> more money for the regional growth fund is great news for yorkshire. and the chancellor give details to the house of? >> there will be more money for the region growth fund. that has been help for securing and creating up to
. >> steve reed. >> chancellor aware because of his continuing inadequate level of funding to school building which today's statement is not correct, london councils across party body is estimating that by 2016, one in every 10 primary age children and son will not have a permanent school place? >> first of all, can i take this opportunity to welcome him to the house of commons. congratulate him on his victory. he rightly wants to speak on behalf of his constituents. what i...
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. >> steve austin watches c-span on verizon. c-span, created by america's cable companies in many 1979 -- in 1979, brought to you as a public service by your television provider. >> now, representative michele bachmann faces democrat jim graves in their final debate in the race to represent minnesota's 6th congressional district. representative bachmann is running for her fourth term. earlier this year she was a candidate for the republican presidential nomination. jim graves is a founder and former ceo of a nationwide hotel franchise. this debate was hosted by kstp-tv in st. paul. ♪ >> moderator: and welcome 4 back. today we feature a live debate inth the 6th congressional district, the district includesm citiesse like blaine, aknow ca, monticello and st. cloud, and i'm joined by congresswoman michele bachmann and the dfl challenger, jim graves. thank you both for being here. graves: thank you very much. >> moderator: hopefully, voters and viewers can learn something about the two of you in the 6th district. mr. graves, let m
. >> steve austin watches c-span on verizon. c-span, created by america's cable companies in many 1979 -- in 1979, brought to you as a public service by your television provider. >> now, representative michele bachmann faces democrat jim graves in their final debate in the race to represent minnesota's 6th congressional district. representative bachmann is running for her fourth term. earlier this year she was a candidate for the republican presidential nomination. jim graves is a...
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steve and alexander, virginia commuter next. >> caller: i have had to be in the minority that thinks the amt is a good thing because it arbitrarily raises the taxes on folks and government programs have to be paid for. i'm really intrigued with mr. buckley's statement that there is going to be chaos if the amt is permitted to go forward or that it's not patched in 2012. what chaos is going to happen? people will have to pay more taxes and it's not as if everyone is sitting around their tax offer right now, anticipating what their taxes are going to be. it's basically individuals will be hit with a tax bill, which is going to be calculated and quite frankly more simplified form than the standard tax law. >> host: professor buckley. >> guest: when i say chaos, i am referring to two things. first, the irs has done all of its internal programming based on the assumption that there would be an amt patch enacted by the end of the year. that would be a fairly large undertaking by the irs to change that. my assumption is most tax return preparation software has made the same calculated gambl
steve and alexander, virginia commuter next. >> caller: i have had to be in the minority that thinks the amt is a good thing because it arbitrarily raises the taxes on folks and government programs have to be paid for. i'm really intrigued with mr. buckley's statement that there is going to be chaos if the amt is permitted to go forward or that it's not patched in 2012. what chaos is going to happen? people will have to pay more taxes and it's not as if everyone is sitting around their...
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>> great question, steve. first of all, i keep saying this and people think i'm simply trying to be humble, i don't think leadership is about one person doing that. i think it's about a group of people who can think critically about a vision of an institution. and i got incredible colleagues who are talking about these issues all the time and the big question and innovation gets at one of the questions that you ask. the big question is, who do we want to be as a public university serving working class, middle class kids? well, as my colleagues were talking, i was thinking -- one big source of pride last year when i walked into the kennedy center because my students are there performing a production, being one of the top with the american college festival. these are kids from all kinds of racial backgrounds performing at the kennedy center, the biggest day of their lives. incredible. and then i'm thinking about -- when we think about gangs in other countries, we started 25 years ago the choice program in our sh
>> great question, steve. first of all, i keep saying this and people think i'm simply trying to be humble, i don't think leadership is about one person doing that. i think it's about a group of people who can think critically about a vision of an institution. and i got incredible colleagues who are talking about these issues all the time and the big question and innovation gets at one of the questions that you ask. the big question is, who do we want to be as a public university serving...
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what distressed me the other day was steve's resignation. i don't want to repeat his punch line at the end which was devra devastating and poignant, but he offered the simpson-bowles budget resolution. it went down in flames. the ability of moderates to i -- influence policy -- the mern -- american people have to be aware of it, and i don't know how that happens, but it has to happen over time. yes? >> so what was your specific recommendations for procedural form b? are there signs that folks are interested in the house side on moving -- >> the house side? >> moving towards that. >> it depends on the composition of the next house i think but i'm not privy today -- day-to-day discussions, and if the had his brothers he, perhaps would have been able to advocate more openness. there has been, as i said, there's been a return to some openness, but as long as the rules committee can bring overnight a rules change that changes standing rules but can't deny the motion to recommit, and in every other respect, parliamentarians all over the world are
what distressed me the other day was steve's resignation. i don't want to repeat his punch line at the end which was devra devastating and poignant, but he offered the simpson-bowles budget resolution. it went down in flames. the ability of moderates to i -- influence policy -- the mern -- american people have to be aware of it, and i don't know how that happens, but it has to happen over time. yes? >> so what was your specific recommendations for procedural form b? are there signs that...
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and there was also a chicago council poll that steve did in june 2012. 's web a little bit of a sense of comparison. so clued one of the things we're interested in finding out is how the public is internalizing what seem to be sweeping demonstrations initially, it looked like they had used support and they were very violent, serving in libya and egypt in august a lot of commentary with those people. so we can't have an idea of what the american people -- do they see this as, do they see the violent attacks take against the embassies to be supported by majorities of arabs and muslims, or by minorities? and that was really the first question that we had about that attacks in libya and in egypt. so thinking about that attacks in egypt and libya for each country would you say the violent attacks were only supported by extremist minorities or they were supported by majorities of the population? both egypt and libya. you can see he really large majorities, 63% on egypt, 61 on libya coming believe that these violent attacks were only supported by extremist mino
and there was also a chicago council poll that steve did in june 2012. 's web a little bit of a sense of comparison. so clued one of the things we're interested in finding out is how the public is internalizing what seem to be sweeping demonstrations initially, it looked like they had used support and they were very violent, serving in libya and egypt in august a lot of commentary with those people. so we can't have an idea of what the american people -- do they see this as, do they see the...
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begin with steve in new york. you are on the air. good evening. >> caller: yes - level of the government is to protect basic rights and there is nothing more basic than clean air and water and this is what has totally been forgotten in the last year and a half, two years of the debate. the ecology is not even mentioned in this basically a simplifies modern man's complete this association and disconnection from the natural world to the point of nature distain. that is the basic difficulty. in fact, the attachment is so great that it's even skewed the perception of the reality. you are constantly hearing the word growth and overlooking one simple fact. you cannot grow indefinitely on a finite planet of the finite natural resources especially water. so, all of these candidates are neglecting this. and this is life itself and it has nothing to do with americans in the survival and i would like these candidates to address. when you consider energy more important than water. >> host: thanks from buffalo new york. what should the government
begin with steve in new york. you are on the air. good evening. >> caller: yes - level of the government is to protect basic rights and there is nothing more basic than clean air and water and this is what has totally been forgotten in the last year and a half, two years of the debate. the ecology is not even mentioned in this basically a simplifies modern man's complete this association and disconnection from the natural world to the point of nature distain. that is the basic difficulty....
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or closing comments from steve schneck. [laughter] well, thank you all very much for attending this afternoon. the institute for policy research and catholic studies, as i said, does this for every election so, please, tune in to us for, um, you know, for commentary on the catholic vote over the year. and let's give, you know, a round of applause to mark rozell, to melissa deckman, to mark gray and to greg smith for their great performances today. [applause] i know i learned a lot myself. thank you all very much. everyone will be available for additional questions after the cameras are off. take care. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> we go live this morning now to the national association of latino elected and appointed officials known as naleo as they hold a briefing on voting laws, the latino vote and the 2012 election. the organization this morning is releasing a new report assessing the impact of voting laws on latino voters, analyzing key races around the country where latinos are involved. this i
or closing comments from steve schneck. [laughter] well, thank you all very much for attending this afternoon. the institute for policy research and catholic studies, as i said, does this for every election so, please, tune in to us for, um, you know, for commentary on the catholic vote over the year. and let's give, you know, a round of applause to mark rozell, to melissa deckman, to mark gray and to greg smith for their great performances today. [applause] i know i learned a lot myself. thank...
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i want to turn to steve. so you to start the part of the conversation which has to go with where do we stand between set secrecy and transparency right now in terms where we have come over the past decade plus. what do you think the big challenges going forward are given what you've heard today. >> i absolutely think john put it rather nicely when he suggested that thirty years from now there will be another panel. i think i might be on it, actually, john. [laughter] because actually if you go back and look. in the late '70s, john probably has the transcript in the file cabinet, there were ways to with the problem of national security leaking and how to strike the balance between the media's right to pursue national security information and the government trying to cope it a secret. there's a beautiful rhetoric when john's predecessor at clayton any about the difficulties that individuals in his position face. because of the what they called the bemean interdetermine sei. i think we have to start from that ob
i want to turn to steve. so you to start the part of the conversation which has to go with where do we stand between set secrecy and transparency right now in terms where we have come over the past decade plus. what do you think the big challenges going forward are given what you've heard today. >> i absolutely think john put it rather nicely when he suggested that thirty years from now there will be another panel. i think i might be on it, actually, john. [laughter] because actually if...
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steve king, jim jordan and more. the cost is $100 per person and you can get your ticket upstairs. you must have a ticket to attend. off college and high school students from 5:30-seven tonight there is a mixture downstairs. general william boykin former commander of the army's elite division delta force, and this nation is chronicled in "black hawk down" will be speaking. there'll be a special right versus left debate on the hottest topics of the day including marriage, life, religious liberty between blake matos and rod snyder, president of young democrats for america. alex will be moderating. you will want to miss this and you'll get your dinner which will include all four basic food groups on the same pizza. [laughter] please show your student name tag for admission. we have a number of book signings that you want to take advantage of and then see them listed. here are the authors and at times. be sure to get your books in advance so you can take advantage of all of the book signings, the book it is located on regency hall then it just outside the ballroom. let me talk real qui
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. >> so how would you compare samuel morse or alexander graham bell to a steve jobs or a bill gates? >> well, they are very different. morse was an unsuccessful entrepreneur. bell did not wish to be an entrepreneur. gates and jobs are very successful entrepreneurs. and in that, someways morse is the most revealing, he's the most revealing contrast because he very much wanted to rely on the last generations template for how to organize a business, to rely on the federal government. he wanted to sell his past to the federal government and basically get out of the way. when that failed he tried to license his telegraph patents very selectively, but this proved impossible. he did not have, the federal government proved unable to provide him with the kind of protection he needed in order to pursue his business. in the case of gates, he famously had a very great good fortune to stumble upon the telephone -- computer business, software business just when ibm was looking for a developer. ibm gave him the kind of running room that the federal government didn't give morse. >> so, are you sayin
. >> so how would you compare samuel morse or alexander graham bell to a steve jobs or a bill gates? >> well, they are very different. morse was an unsuccessful entrepreneur. bell did not wish to be an entrepreneur. gates and jobs are very successful entrepreneurs. and in that, someways morse is the most revealing, he's the most revealing contrast because he very much wanted to rely on the last generations template for how to organize a business, to rely on the federal government....
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steve simpson living it up at our expense. >> this is steve simpson. this is his yacht. the same year he bought his yacht, simpson failed to pay his property taxes. his taxes were so late they put a lien on his house. simpson said paying his taxes was not in the budget but buying a yacht was? and as public safety commissioner, simpson took a pay raise to 138,000 while cutting the state highway budget. steve simpson, living it up at our expense. >> obviously, this has a lot of negativity in it as you can see. you know, in 18 years of doing this, the reason i want to show this for a couple reasons. we have never had an opponent that had this many negatives on him. i've never seen this. it was like going into the campaign office every day and opening up a folder and saying, okay, what do we want to use today? and it just kept going. now, what happens is these commercials were based on information we had put together at the beginning of the campaign so they were sent to the pollster which the process -- you know politics as you know is a very defined process ideally so our i
steve simpson living it up at our expense. >> this is steve simpson. this is his yacht. the same year he bought his yacht, simpson failed to pay his property taxes. his taxes were so late they put a lien on his house. simpson said paying his taxes was not in the budget but buying a yacht was? and as public safety commissioner, simpson took a pay raise to 138,000 while cutting the state highway budget. steve simpson, living it up at our expense. >> obviously, this has a lot of...
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. >> steve cheney with the american security project. let me thank all of you for our service to the corps and our country right up front. i'm with the american security project. we cover ideas about. bob, secretary mavis went up on the hill and was grilled hard about the navy's use of biofuels when i think his decision and the administration's decision to use biofuels is the right one. my question is to fred smith on fedex. you have so many airplanes now, that technology has been proven biofuels work in airplanes. do you have any plans to use biofuel? and secondly one of the big problems with that indus of course is funding on the technology and development side of the front end. it would seem to me from the industry side it would be a good thing to invest in. >> well, the industry is working very hard on this. boeing and airbus who agree on very few things, just in the last week alongwith embraer of brazil announced a consortium to work on biofuels. lufthansa, virgin, klm, i think alaska airlines, quantity tus, -- quantity tus, many --
. >> steve cheney with the american security project. let me thank all of you for our service to the corps and our country right up front. i'm with the american security project. we cover ideas about. bob, secretary mavis went up on the hill and was grilled hard about the navy's use of biofuels when i think his decision and the administration's decision to use biofuels is the right one. my question is to fred smith on fedex. you have so many airplanes now, that technology has been proven...
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steve here's the thing. we can take, we can make it people can download literature, customize it, bring it out to their neighbors and clubs whatever. we tested this product back in 2004 would mate it possible with a cell phone, internet connection and computer you could turn your kitchen table into a phone bank. you could turn your kitchen into a, like a staging area or mini campaign headquarters. i put it all on the line and i was like, i had idea probably not new. i had the idea and vendor i thought i could bring forward. i thought i did a great job, you know. i heard later that david plouffe, the campaign manager said, asked about me and steve said he had some interesting ideas. so i thought, that's good. it turns out that i think what steve meant was he had some interesting ideas. because i didn't hear anything from them for, for many, many weeks actually. i mean actually the campaign, the candidate was on tv. one night, one day i was watching it that evening, announcing his bid for president. this was a
steve here's the thing. we can take, we can make it people can download literature, customize it, bring it out to their neighbors and clubs whatever. we tested this product back in 2004 would mate it possible with a cell phone, internet connection and computer you could turn your kitchen table into a phone bank. you could turn your kitchen into a, like a staging area or mini campaign headquarters. i put it all on the line and i was like, i had idea probably not new. i had the idea and vendor i...
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[applause] >> thank you, steve. steve is a very old colleague and friend. not old, valued colleague and friend. >> thank you. >> we work for so many years in and out of government on europe and alliance issues together, it's a privilege to be and what thank you for the work you and your team do here at csis. and i especially want to thank you for the work you did in support of nader's new strategic concept. year critical partners, madeleine albright, as she led the group of experts who provide very important input into the development of that concept which was agreed in lisbon in november 2010. i'm also happy to see somebody friends here today, colleagues, members of the diplomatic community with whom i worked very closely. thank you for taking time to come and join us for this conversation. many of you know i have devoted much of my courage working on strengthening our alliance with europe, to ensuring that it is capable of meeting the threats we face together today, and it is capable of adapting to a rapidly changing strategic environment. this has alread
[applause] >> thank you, steve. steve is a very old colleague and friend. not old, valued colleague and friend. >> thank you. >> we work for so many years in and out of government on europe and alliance issues together, it's a privilege to be and what thank you for the work you and your team do here at csis. and i especially want to thank you for the work you did in support of nader's new strategic concept. year critical partners, madeleine albright, as she led the group of...
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steve smith edits the. it's got some right wing people that are good, smart, conservative. i really pay attention. and every the "washington post" but every to all different ways. the phillies score, the stupidest scuttle bus on the second biggest of which i always check. i always have to check it. i always read the op-ed page. all the way through it up to the great diplomatic stuff, and the stuff, what's his name on the page right before it? and then i read the times. you have to get your speed up, be able to read the times began to work. yet to read a new post which had get ready for the times but then if i'm really ambitious i go to the journal. my wife reads that. but i think he put all that together you know about. i don't know any country in the world as lucky as us. if you want to know more, just turn on your sirius/xm radio and listen all day to one of the three news networks. and i flip around i flip around and i see -- i've run from cnn and a checkbox because some of them are okay. some of the people are okay. i'm not big on sean, but o'reilly is kind of a mixed b
steve smith edits the. it's got some right wing people that are good, smart, conservative. i really pay attention. and every the "washington post" but every to all different ways. the phillies score, the stupidest scuttle bus on the second biggest of which i always check. i always have to check it. i always read the op-ed page. all the way through it up to the great diplomatic stuff, and the stuff, what's his name on the page right before it? and then i read the times. you have to get...
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[applause] steve is going to introduce the panel to you. if he comes. did we lose steve? maybe i will just go to appear and and ask you a few questions. this panel will be talking appropriately about ideas and innovations. exarch i'm late that i had to get a mic. good morning, everybody. good morning, gentlemen. >> might mic is a little messy here. michael, you have a big weekend, spend it at home reading? >> yes. watching football. >> so, kennedy center, i think of people like me, old. we like our beethoven. we're really thrilled with oscars and palestine revival. so how is it that you can innovate in a place where a large chunk of your base of customers and your base of donors are pretty conservative and set in the ways and they know what they like? >> it's interesting that i always use the example of the and so which was the car by four from many of us were old enough remember the answer which was designed by ford, the first car that was designed by focus groups. ford held focus groups all over america. they said which is the string where you like the desk in which is
[applause] steve is going to introduce the panel to you. if he comes. did we lose steve? maybe i will just go to appear and and ask you a few questions. this panel will be talking appropriately about ideas and innovations. exarch i'm late that i had to get a mic. good morning, everybody. good morning, gentlemen. >> might mic is a little messy here. michael, you have a big weekend, spend it at home reading? >> yes. watching football. >> so, kennedy center, i think of people...
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that's why we were as a country in national mourning with the passing of steve jobs. walter isaacson's book -- i was on vacation and people reading it was like the bible. we are desperate as a people to recapture what made the company great. we're a startup nation. we're at our heart entrepreneurs. the country was based on innovation, our founding fathers really were our first entrepreneurs. and so i do think that washington, because of this political gridlock, gets in the way more than it helps. and that's really the biggest issue. one of the intellectual fight is, do you want government to create jobs or do you want industry to create jobs? pretty binary. and if government creates jobs, how do we know that we're getting our money's worth because we as taxpayers, in essence, are becoming the venture capitalists. and will the government be able to manage those functions and those businesses and investments well? we know there's infrastructure in management and leadership on investing and trying to make these companies successful and so you know, i'm ashamed to say tha
that's why we were as a country in national mourning with the passing of steve jobs. walter isaacson's book -- i was on vacation and people reading it was like the bible. we are desperate as a people to recapture what made the company great. we're a startup nation. we're at our heart entrepreneurs. the country was based on innovation, our founding fathers really were our first entrepreneurs. and so i do think that washington, because of this political gridlock, gets in the way more than it...
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>> steve, i think he touched on the biggest reason why this debate could be more important than these under cards typically are. that is because there is pressure on joe biden to stand and deliver, and to change the narrative from what we've had the last few days. which is a fact given president obama's weak performance in denver, that mitt romney for the first time it seemed a real bump in the polls, and in some states is polling narrowly ahead. so i think biden will try to turn that around, put paul ryan and the gop ticket back on the defensive and at the same time the burden is on trying to keep the mojo going, keep romney's sort of balance here a life released a few more days until the president and mitt romney face off again next week. so i think that's the biggest reason why this thing matters. also one important point and that is this is one of the first perhaps the only campaign where one side is really campaigning against the policies of the other parties vice president as much as they're running against the other party's presidential nominee. paul ryan and his budget proposa
>> steve, i think he touched on the biggest reason why this debate could be more important than these under cards typically are. that is because there is pressure on joe biden to stand and deliver, and to change the narrative from what we've had the last few days. which is a fact given president obama's weak performance in denver, that mitt romney for the first time it seemed a real bump in the polls, and in some states is polling narrowly ahead. so i think biden will try to turn that...
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. >> steve dolly. last week at the commission briefing on fiewk fukushima -- pursuing the tier two and tier three recommendation, in other words the one beyond the order and request for information could trade-off industry resources with@s needed to improve and maintain safety at current plants and i believe one of the represents of the reactor operator's association expressed concern they're getting piled on in these emergency improves. you need to learn procedure x yz there's only so much time. what can nrc do to are a address the tier two and three recommendation to avoid the trayoffs the industry is worried about with other safety activities? >>, you know, that's a good point, steve. that we have to make sure that we don't make so many rules they turn attention away from maintaining the safe operation of plabtds. that has to be the primary focus that the existing reactors and facilities, frankly, continue to operate safely, we continue our regular work there. at the same time, i think we have learn
. >> steve dolly. last week at the commission briefing on fiewk fukushima -- pursuing the tier two and tier three recommendation, in other words the one beyond the order and request for information could trade-off industry resources with@s needed to improve and maintain safety at current plants and i believe one of the represents of the reactor operator's association expressed concern they're getting piled on in these emergency improves. you need to learn procedure x yz there's only so...
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. >> steve, from ncrs. and i'm i think it was doctor that put up a slide at the end of jeffrey rhodes and a quote from him his seminal 1992 prevention medicine. i recall that in that he decided you best to stay clear of economic arguments when talking about prevention, because everyone in the end everyone has to die from something and it will cost money. often you're post own the humanitarian argument is the best one. it's better than people be alive and well than sick and dies. i have a question for linda, if i may? i confess to being a little depressed now you talk about smoking which is the number one course of prevented death in the country about one in five deaths smoking attributable, about a third of all cancer incidents are attributed to smoking. this is the big elephant in the room. and yet your study shows that in terms of as you measured in terms of impact on the federal revenues and spending, it's very small the budgetary impact in terms of the budget standards. in terms of the long-term reducti
. >> steve, from ncrs. and i'm i think it was doctor that put up a slide at the end of jeffrey rhodes and a quote from him his seminal 1992 prevention medicine. i recall that in that he decided you best to stay clear of economic arguments when talking about prevention, because everyone in the end everyone has to die from something and it will cost money. often you're post own the humanitarian argument is the best one. it's better than people be alive and well than sick and dies. i have a...
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dan, bob, general smith, i can't believe, steve, they let you in here still. you know, it's an honor and privilege to be here to talk about a topic that it think everybody in this room knows more about than i do. so i'm going to talk about quantum physics. evened the playing field a little bit. it's an entanglement, superposition. no, i think that would be a topic 10 years from now in between we got to get there. so what are the things, and you think about the, you talk about things like quantum computing and stuff like that. look at what's going on in our world today. you know, when you look out, how many here have a connect? how we have an iphone? ipad lux mobile devices, yes. look at this. i'm a fairly young guy. i have 14 grandchildren. i'm trying to help populate the country ourselves. and the average age of these kids seem to be two or three. and every one of them can operate ds, and ipad, an iphone. they are on the all time. they know how to skype at the age of two or three. look at all the great things they can do. now, you saw that new car by google,
dan, bob, general smith, i can't believe, steve, they let you in here still. you know, it's an honor and privilege to be here to talk about a topic that it think everybody in this room knows more about than i do. so i'm going to talk about quantum physics. evened the playing field a little bit. it's an entanglement, superposition. no, i think that would be a topic 10 years from now in between we got to get there. so what are the things, and you think about the, you talk about things like...
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steve massey of a family friend who is a very proud virginia native and a great patriot. betty and i have been married for 34 years and i've always found our relationship fascinating because she needs me for absolutely nothing. and i need her for everything. she is the most beautiful, talented intelligent woman i have ever known and she has raised our great children mark, john, matt and liz while i wander the world. sheave rocks and if you are confirming her this morning we would like to take about five minutes by an confident you will be more delivered with me. mr. chairman, thank you so much for allowing her to be here. it is a tremendous honor and a humbling experience to be nominated by the commander-in-chief to serve as the chief of staff by the united states air force and i would like to thank the president and secretary leon panetta and adamle for their confidence. i'd also like to thank general schwartz for his leadership of the air force for the past four years. i believe that history shows times are always challenging and these times are certainly no different.
steve massey of a family friend who is a very proud virginia native and a great patriot. betty and i have been married for 34 years and i've always found our relationship fascinating because she needs me for absolutely nothing. and i need her for everything. she is the most beautiful, talented intelligent woman i have ever known and she has raised our great children mark, john, matt and liz while i wander the world. sheave rocks and if you are confirming her this morning we would like to take...
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steve latourette, we endorse him. i don't think he will run again this time. that's what i say, the more moderate ones are sort of falling off. and that's a tragedy for the country. and the viciousness of politics is really driving the best and the brightest away from politics. why do this? of the best and the brightest aren't going into politics like they used to. that's a real loss for the country as far as i'm concerned. >> on the second bill of rights -- [inaudible] has president obama signed off on it? >> we sent a letter to, one, the head of the democratic national committee and the republican national committee. we sent them a common letter by the way so that no one would say weighted to favor one or the other. we sent it off to them. we sent word to the president that we want him to sign it, and i have no reason to believe that he will sign at the he won't be supportive of all of those things. all of those things -- [inaudible] >> robert? [inaudible] on the presidential election, what does the obama team need to be doing better, and what is the romney
steve latourette, we endorse him. i don't think he will run again this time. that's what i say, the more moderate ones are sort of falling off. and that's a tragedy for the country. and the viciousness of politics is really driving the best and the brightest away from politics. why do this? of the best and the brightest aren't going into politics like they used to. that's a real loss for the country as far as i'm concerned. >> on the second bill of rights -- [inaudible] has president...
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the teams that identify with the rover is fundamental to design as steve squires explains. we notice it with the pan cam wide-angle camera. we hit it with a mini test to check for iron. it looks interesting, and we go over and we figure out its molecular composition with the apsx. everything works together. having instruments that work together encourages the teams to work together. this was squires' vision which he called science engineering. he said, you've got those sensors, and each of them provides complimentary bytes of knowledge. you're going to use the payload to the fullest advantage. if people look at it as being entirely at their disposal. if you were out there in the field, he says, doing geology with your field partner, you might be arguing about what this rock means or what that rock mean, but you're not going to be arguing about should we use the rock hammer or should we use the compass. we don't have pan cam guys arguing with mini test guys but rather geologists arguing with chemists about exploration. now, to appreciate that you need to know that this desig
the teams that identify with the rover is fundamental to design as steve squires explains. we notice it with the pan cam wide-angle camera. we hit it with a mini test to check for iron. it looks interesting, and we go over and we figure out its molecular composition with the apsx. everything works together. having instruments that work together encourages the teams to work together. this was squires' vision which he called science engineering. he said, you've got those sensors, and each of them...